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Humanitarian Crises
2019 in pictures: 12 photos, 12 months, 12 countries
A photo roundup of the events of 2019, from a dam collapse in Brazil to protests in Hong Kong.
A cow is rescued after the collapse of a tailing dam belonging to Brazilian mining company Vale SA Brumadinho, January 29, 2019. [Washington Alves/Reuters]
Published On 24 Dec 2019
24 Dec 2019
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Fatima Ibrahim Hadi, 12, who is malnourished and weighs just 10kg, sits on a bed at a clinic in Aslam district, in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 17, 2019. [Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]
Enia Joaquin Luis, 11, wakes up beside her sister Luisa, 6, under plastic sheets that protect them from rain as they stay in a shelter at the stands of Ring ground in Buzi, Mozambique, on March 23, 2019. The death toll had climbed to 417 after Cyclone Idai pummelled swaths of Mozambique on March 14, 2019, flooding thousands of square kilometres. Six weeks later, the country was hit by a second storm, Cyclone Kenneth, which became the strongest cyclone to ever hit the African continent. [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP]
A Sudanese protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask waves a national flag outside the defence ministry compound in Khartoum, Sudan, April 24, 2019. [Umit Bektas/Reuters]
Palestinian families break their fast next to a building destroyed in recent confrontations between Hamas and Israel, in the Gaza Strip on May 18, 2019, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. [Mahmud Hams/AFP]
The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria lie in the Rio Bravo river in Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on June 24, 2019. Ramirez had been trying to take his child to the United States in search of a better life. His wife, Tania Vanessa Avalos, survived after being rescued by a friend, according to her mother. [Stringer/Reuters]
Football fans react after Algeria won the semi-final soccer match against Nigeria in the Africa Cup of Nations 2019, in Algiers, Algeria, July 14, 2019. [Ramzi Boudina/Reuters]
Protesters wearing protective gear face off with riot policemen on a street during the anti-extradition bill protest in Hong Kong, China, August 11, 2019. [Kin Cheung/AP Photo]
Firefighters from Bolivia's army line up before patrolling an area where wildfires have destroyed hectares of forest at Rancho Grande village in Robore, Bolivia, September 24, 2019. [Edgard Garrido/Reuters]
A masked Kashmiri man with his head wrapped in barbed wire attends a protest after Friday prayers in Srinagar, October 11, 2019. The protest took place during the lockdown that followed the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the Indian government. [Danish Ismail/Reuters]
A woman poses for a picture near graffiti with the Arabic slogan: "Those are our women" during ongoing protests near Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, November 7, 2019. [Khalid Mohammed/AP Photo]
A man stands sipping a cola as a policeman chases demonstrators during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile December 4, 2019. [Goran Tomasevic /Reuters]